Gardenia essential oil benefits

In life, everyone must be yearning for gardenia, because gardenia represents youth and vitality. Gardenia is full of memories for today's young people. In addition to being used for appreciation, gardenia also has high medicinal value. The essential oil made from gardenia can treat many diseases and regulate physical problems.

1. Gardenia

Gardenia, also known as yellow gardenia, mountain gardenia, and white toad, is the fruit of the gardenia plant of the Rubiaceae family. Gardenia prefers a warm, humid and sunny environment. It is relatively cold-resistant and can tolerate partial shade. It is afraid of waterlogging and requires loose, fertile and acidic sandy loam. It is native to China. In addition to being used for viewing, the flowers, fruits, leaves and roots of gardenia can be used as medicine, which has the effects of relieving heat and relieving restlessness, clearing away heat and promoting diuresis, cooling blood and detoxifying.

2. The efficacy of gardenia

1. Clear away heat and relieve restlessness: Gardenia is suitable for relieving the mind from heat. Exogenous febrile disease, with evil accumulated in the upper part of the body, causing restlessness and insomnia. The fire poison is raging, with high fever, irritability, and even delirium.

2. Cooling blood and detoxifying: Gardenia is often used for heat and toxicity in the blood. Blood heat and abnormal flow, vomiting blood, nosebleed, and hematuria. Swollen throat and red eyes, hot and toxic sores, are caused by real heat.

3. Clear away dampness and heat: Gardenia is suitable for dampness and heat in the liver, gallbladder and lower abdomen. Damp-heat in the liver meridians causes stagnation of fire, restlessness, irritability, side pain and bitter taste in the mouth. Damp-heat jaundice and damp-heat invasion, hot and painful stranguria.

3. The role of gardenia

1. Gardenia can promote bile secretion and relieve jaundice: Injection of gardenia water extract, crocin and crocetin into rabbits has a significant effect on increasing bile secretion and a significant contraction effect on the human gallbladder. It can also significantly reduce the bilirubin in the blood and peripheral lymph fluid. It can promote the rapid excretion of bilirubin in the blood.

2. Gardenia promotes pancreatic secretion: Gardenia dehydroxygardena glycoside can promote pancreatic secretion and significantly reduce pancreatic amylase, and can increase pancreatic bile flow.

3. Gardenia has antipyretic and anti-microbial effects: Gardenia and its alcohol extracts in different preparations have antipyretic effects, with raw gardenia having a stronger antipyretic effect. Ursolic acid is one of the active ingredients in gardenia that can reduce fever and calm the nerves. The ursolic acid content was significantly reduced after charcoal frying, so the antipyretic effect of fried gardenia was significantly weakened, but that of charred gardenia was not. The water extract of gardenia has inhibitory effects on many skin fungi and hemolytic streptococci.

4. The effect of gardenia essential oil

Gardenia essential oil clears away heat and purges fire, cools blood and stops bleeding. Treats fever, restlessness, insomnia, sprains, swelling and pain. It can also relax nerves, relieve stress, regulate emotions, and strongly promote sexual desire. It balances oil secretion, is a good product for skin whitening, purifies pores, softens the stratum corneum, refreshes the mind and helps memory. It also promotes metabolism, moisturizes the skin and keeps it young.

5. Usage

1. For facial use: Add 1-2 drops to facial cream and apply to face, or put it in facial cleanser to wash face. It can also be added to facial mask to enhance the effect of the mask.

2. For body use: Pour 7-8 drops of essential oil into 40-degree water and soak for 15-20 minutes.

3. Aromatherapy: Pour 2-3 drops of essential oil into an aromatherapy burner or humidifier and heat it.

Gardenia smells very fragrant and is very ornamental. After being made into essential oil, it will naturally not be unknown. The above article introduces the effects of gardenia essential oil in detail. Gardenia essential oil inherits the effects of gardenia to the greatest extent. At the same time, it is also more convenient to use. Use a little bit when you feel hot and dry to clear away heat and reduce irritation.